Practical Politics category: 1369 books
by James MacGregor Burns
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
The New York Times–bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner examines the history of leadership, and the crucial role of leaders in a healthy democracy.
In Transforming Leadership, James MacGregor Burns illuminates the evolution of leadership structures—from the chieftains of tribal...
by Mary Jordan, The Washington Post
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
Presidential candidates are a breed apart, often propelled by traits that have shaped their careers and have deep roots in personal histories. Often their greatest strength can turn at supernova speed into their greatest weakness. The exact qualities that set them apart from the field trip them up eventually...
by Marc Fisher, The Washington Post
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
Presidential candidates are a breed apart, often propelled by traits that have shaped their careers and have deep roots in personal histories. Often their greatest strength can turn at supernova speed into their greatest weakness. The exact qualities that set them apart from the field trip them up eventually...
A Short History of the Irish Revolution, 1912 to 1927
From the Ulster Crisis to the formation of the Irish Free State
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2007
The years of the Irish revolution were the crucible of modern Ireland. Richard Killeen's authoritative survey of the period is an ideal introduction to this tumultuous time.
The Irish revolution began with the Ulster crisis of 1912 followed by the Irish Nationalist Party securing the passage...
by Heinz Duthel
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
Frankfurt School
Notable theorists
Max Horkheimer Theodor Adorno Herbert Marcuse Heinz Duthel Walter Benjamin Erich Fromm Friedrich Pollock Leo Löwenthal Jürgen Habermas
Reason and Revolution Dialectic of Enlightenment Minima...
by Terry Crawford-Brown
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2011
"The clerk of the court called all rise as judge Blignaut swept in dressed in his black gown. He sat down, and moments later we rose again as he swept out, having pronounced the verdict. 'The clerk handed [my lawyer] a copy of the judgment. I received my own copy by e-mail that afternoon. [My...
How Rob Ford Happened
A History of the Toronto Mayor from the Pages of the National Post
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
Drawing on a wealth of articles written by by National Post journalists including Christie Blatchford, Jonathan Kay, Andrew Coyne, Chris Selley and more, How Rob Ford Happened examines the precipitous rise and calamitous fall of one of the most controversial public figures in Canadian political history....
by Raffaele Simone
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 26, 2010
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 26, 2010
Il punto di partenza è la drammatica crisi (forse di morte e trasfigurazione) in cui la sinistra si dibatte ovunque agli inizi del XXI secolo. La spiegazione che offre Raffaele Simone non è solo di natura politica. Perché non basta ricordare (come molti hanno fatto) la sequela di tragici errori o...
A City in Wartime – Dublin 1914–1918
The Easter Rising 1916
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2011
This fascinating history looks at how the lives of ordinary Dubliners were affected by these three major events
Why did so many working-class Dublin men join the British Army? How did the city’s 92,000 Protestants fare in this turbulent time? Dubliners fought on both sides in the Easter Rising....
by Elleke Boehmer
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2008
As well as being a remarkable statesman and one of the world's longest-detained political prisoners, Nelson Mandela has become an exemplary figure of non-racialism and democracy, a moral giant. Once a man with an unknown face, he became after his 1994 release one of the most internationally recognizable...
Power in Words
The Stories behind Barack Obama's Speeches, from the State House to the White House
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
Whatever his ratings, Obama remains personally popular, widely acknowledged for his soaring oratory. His words were one of the lasting legacies of his presidential campaign and are proving to be among his most effective governing weapons.
In Power in Words, distinguished historian and civil rights...
Red Army
The Radical Network That Must Be Defeated to Save America
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
In Red Army, Aaron Klein and Brenda J. Elliot—bestselling authors of The Manchurian President—expose the nexus of radical socialist groups shaping the presidential agenda of Barack Obama and reveal how their plan to transform America is already well underway. A truly eye-opening work of investigative...
Right Turn
How the Tories Took Ontario
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 1995
It wasn’t so much a big blue machine that chugged its way across Ontario’s political landscape in the spring of 1995 — it was more a big purple bulldozer driven by leader Mike Harris and a new breed of Tories. Gone were the pinstripes and the cigar-chomping backroom boys of the forty-two years...
Obama's Legacy - Yes We Can, Yes We Did
Main Accomplishments & Projects, All Executive Orders, International Treaties, Inaugural Speeches and Farwell Address of the 44th President of the United States
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
During his years in office, from 2009 to 2017, Barack Obama signed more landmark legislation than any Democratic president since Lyndon Baines Johnson. This collection presents the legacy of Barack Obama through his presidential work and the legislation of his administration. The edition honors his...